Cape Town - Social media users are outraged at Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's instruction to his department to consider fast-tracking the visa applications of white South African farmers who want to immigrate to "a civilised country like ours."

Dutton said South Africans who immigrated to Australia "work hard and integrate well into Australian society."

The comments come at a time when the South African government has committed itself to the expropriation of land without compensation.

Many people called out Dutton for offering asylum to white South Africans while Australia has consistently taken a hard line on asylum seekers, shipping them to the Pacific island nation of Nauru or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for processing at overcrowded and poorly equiped centres.

Take a look at some of the comments on Twitter:

He's just trying the 'Donald Trump' model to see if he can be the next PM. It's about time we will find out if the Aussies are as clever as the Americans in electing their representative.#PeterDuttonhttps://t.co/zRiyCPGRmZ

Sadly the natives of Africa didn't have a rich country like Australia to help them when British settlers rounded up black males, slaughtered their families and shipped them to the UK & America to work as slaves #auspol#PeterDutton@AustralianLabor

Hey, @PeterDutton_MP. The game is up now, mate. Fast tracking visas for people, whose skin colour is the same as yours has left no room for doubt now that you are fuelled by hatred for brown people. Disgusting. #AusPol#LordVoldeMort#PeterDutton

#auspole#PeterDutton White man invades a country steals the land rapes and pilages destroy a culture he gets a national holiday Black man does the same and it's " How dare you . You cant treat us like We treat You ... We are White